Could Companion Stars Cause Stripped-Envelope Supernovae?
How do you make a supernova without hydrogen and helium lines? The answer may surprise you! (It’s probably binary stars)
With Great Power, Comes Great Asteroseismology
Authors of today’s paper combine powerful machine learning techniques and millions of light curves to create the first all-sky galaxy mass map.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter My Accretion Disk
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain…” -Dante’s Inferno… and AGN, apparently
Written in the Stars: the Moment our Galaxy Began Boiling
Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.
Twinkle, twinkle, highest redshift star; how we wonder what you are!
What do mythology, Tolkien, and astrophysics have in common?
Giraffes exist, and Unicorns too!
What do giraffes and unicorns have in common with red giant binary systems? Find out in today’s bite!